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If he only listened to her words, they might sound a bit caustic. A tad sharp. But the humor lacing her tone told him differently.
She was teasing him again.
“I like your voice,” he blurted unexpectedly.
In truth, he didn’t know he would say the words until they were already out of his mouth.
“Thank you,” she said graciously, a small smile curving her lips that he saw beneath the shadow cast by her hat in profile.
“And as I mentioned in excessive detail at the ball, Iadoreyour voice, Prince Saiyan.”
If he had his dragon scales, they would have raised like hackles at the sound of the invented name on her lips. It sounded wrong.
“Sai,” he insisted.
“Well, I don’t think—”
“Say it,” he growled the command.
Brigid slid a quick look toward her companion on Sai’s other side.
“Don’t mind me,” the girl called Annie interjected with alacrity.
“Pretend I’m not here, and you two are all alone on a romantic carriage ride. I’m people watching anyway. Not at all paying attention to whatever you might have to tell each other.”
Brigid leaned across him to stare at Annie.
“You were obviously listening just now,” she pointed out amicably.
“But I won’t anymore,” Annie promised.
“Here, I’ll turn my back.”
She made a show of leaning half her torso out of the phaeton, until Sai had to wind one arm around her waist to keep her from toppling out of the moving vehicle entirely. Propriety bedamned.
“Goodness there are so many people in the park!” she exclaimed. “It’s like watching the Victorian era’s version of Paris Fashion Week. Well, London, I guess. And…is that alivebird in that posh lady’s hat?”
Sai and Brigid shared a look of befuddlement and shrugged at the same time. The other woman was rather strange, Sai thought. But, then, who was he to judge.
Thus, their chaperone turned a blind eye and a deaf ear, and the man called Ben pulled farther out ahead of them so that he couldn’t witness their interaction either.
Just as they promised. To aid Sai, for whatever reason, in his mission to woo his prey.
In exchange for information.
They had yet to interrogate him like they threatened the night of the ball. Perhaps they were waiting for the proper time.
He didn’t care what they asked him. He might even tell them the truth. It was too unbelievable to be taken seriously by myopic humans in any case.
“Now,” he murmured to his target, turning slightly toward her, but still mostly facing forward.
He nodded regally to a pair of gentlemen on horseback, who eyed Annie with interest while completely ignoring Brigid.
Sai couldn’t understand it. To him, Brigid was far more interesting. Well, if he was the only one who could see this, all the better for his task.
“Where were we?”
“Getting to know each other,” she said.
